Today’s fictional heroine, Katy Carr, is yet another character from the 19th century, but written in America in 1870 she seems so much more up-to-date. At 12, Katy is the eldest of 6 children, living with their father Dr Carr and his sister Aunt Izzie. She leads her siblings in fun and adventure, always with good intentions but she is thoughtless and impulsive, leading to a life-changing accident. Suddenly her future is severely restricted, and Katy is marooned upstairs as an invalid. She eventually decides to make her room and her company welcoming and irresistible so that her family seek her out.
You can’t help liking Katy and wishing the best for her. In What Katy Did At School, which for me was the best of the trilogy, Katy and Clover go to a boarding school in New England and in What Katy Did Next she travels to Europe. I am tempted to reread these three books by Susan Coolidge, set in a time when life was simpler.
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Katy was one of my favourite characters. I always blamed Aunt Izzie for the accident – she should have explained why Katy shouldn’t go on the swing not simply forbid it!
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Yes, she had no idea about sensible parenting.
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Hello, fellow A-to-Zer! I’ve never encountered this series before, but it sounds charming! Thank you for telling us about it.
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